How to format your references using the Frontiers in Tumor Immunity citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Frontiers in Tumor Immunity. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Find the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

Dickey, B. F. (2012). Biochemistry. Walking on solid ground. Science 337, 924–925.

A journal article with 2 authors

Chaine, A. S., and Lyon, B. E. (2008). Adaptive plasticity in female mate choice dampens sexual selection on male ornaments in the lark bunting. Science 319, 459–462.

A journal article with 3 authors

Evaristo, J., Jasechko, S., and McDonnell, J. J. (2015). Global separation of plant transpiration from groundwater and streamflow. Nature 525, 91–94.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Lee, H.-C., Chang, S.-S., Choudhary, S., Aalto, A. P., Maiti, M., Bamford, D. H., et al. (2009). qiRNA is a new type of small interfering RNA induced by DNA damage. Nature 459, 274–277.

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

Prydie, D., and Hewitt, I. (2015). Practical Physiotherapy for Small Animal Practice. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Yang, L. T., Zhou, X., Zhao, W., Wu, Z., Zhu, Y., and Lin, M. eds. (2005). Embedded Software and Systems: Second International Conference, ICESS 2005, Xi’an, China, December 16-18, 2005. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Talbot, K., Ong, W.-. Y., Blake, D. J., Tang, J., Louneva, N., Carlson, G. C., et al. (2009). “Dysbindin-1 and Its Protein Family,” in Handbook of Neurochemistry and Molecular Neurobiology: Schizophrenia, eds. A. Lajtha, D. Javitt, and J. Kantrowitz (Boston, MA: Springer US), 107–241.

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for Frontiers in Tumor Immunity.

Blog post

Hale, T. (2015). Catastrophic Antelope Death Rates Are Higher And More Mysterious Than Previously Thought. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/catatrophic-saiga-deaths-rates-are-higher-and-more-mysterious-previously-expected/ (Accessed October 30, 2018).

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

Government Accountability Office (1998). District of Columbia: Extent to Which Schools Receive Available Federal Education Grants. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Heckman, K. A. (2010). Pedogenesis & carbon dynamics across a lithosequence under ponderosa pine. Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona.

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

Dominus, S. (2014). The Sexual Healer. New York Times, ST1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Dickey, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Chaine and Lyon, 2008; Dickey, 2012).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Chaine and Lyon, 2008)
Three or more authors: (Lee et al., 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Frontiers in Tumor Immunity
Abbreviation	Front. Immunol.
ISSN (online)	1664-3224
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